HEXBRAILLE(1)

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💖 HEXBRAILLE 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about hexbraille from the General Commands Manual and honestly? she's iconic. this is the little script that pops out every single Braille dot pattern in the whole Unicode Braille range, and yes she does it algorithmically because she's that girl. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

hexbraille — algorithmically generate the Unicode Braille range (U+28xx) 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

hexbraille > output-font.hex

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no drama, just you and a redirect. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea: hexbraille generates a GNU Unifont .hex format file, and it writes it straight to stdout. 📝

and what's in that file, you ask? the Braille dot patterns in the Unicode range U+2800..U+28FF. the whole range. every single one. no cap. 👑

pro tip from me to you: since it goes to stdout, you're gonna wanna redirect it somewhere, hence the > output-font.hex moment in the synopsis. otherwise she just yells into your terminal and it's giving chaos. 😭

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • braille.hex — output font files 💾

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie she does NOT work alone, she's part of a whole friend group. go say hi to:

💜 AUTHOR 💜

hexbraille was written by Roman Czyborra, who named this script "braille.pl". and then, in 2003, Roman incorporated a bug fix from Dominique at unruh.de. collaboration era fr fr 🫶

👑 LICENSE 👑

hexbraille is Copyright © 1998 Roman Czyborra. 📜

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

legal bestie moment, but like, in a cute way. read the license, it's the main character too. 💅

💀 BUGS 💀

No known bugs exist.

not me being shocked?? a flawless queen. she ate and left no crumbs. 🔥

and that's the whole page babes, no notes. this manual page was dated 2008 Jul 06 — so she's been serving looks since way back, and honestly? timeless. mwah. 💖✨🎀

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